HANOI, Oct 21 (AFP) - Eighty-seven people have died in Vietnam from mosquito-borne dengue fever since the beginning of the year, an increase of 64 percent over the same period in 2003, officials said Thursday.

The deaths were among nearly 60,000 reported infections, an 83 percent rise year-on-year, said Tran Hung, head of the health ministry's epidemiology department.

The worst affected provinces were in the southern Mekong Delta region where moist and humid conditions provide ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes. The region accounted for more than 95 percent of cases, Hung said.

HANOI, Sept 15, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The rescuers have found fifteen people dying in northern Vietnam's big landslide up to local time 10 a.m. on Wednesday.

The landslide occurred in Bat Xat district of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai at 8 p.m. local time Monday after a short spell of heavy rain dislodging part of a hillside next to the commune, when the four families were eating dinner and had no chance to escape, said one witness.

The death come less than two months after a local radio station warned a large crack had been found along the brow of the hill.

Hanoi (dpa) - Police in northern Vietnam have recovered 10 bodies, and 13 people are still missing after a landslide Monday night, local police said Tuesday.

All 23 were ethnic Dao people living in four houses that were completely buried under the stones and mud after the landslide, said Luu Minh Thien, a local police officer.

The landslide occurred 8 p.m. Monday night after two days of torrential rain, Thien said from Bat Xat district in the northern, mountainous province of Lao Cai.

"We are cooperating with the local

HANOI, July 27 (AFP) - The death toll from torrential storms that lashed Vietnam's mountainous north last week has risen to 36, but another 17 people are missing and feared dead, officials said Tuesday.

Thirty of the deaths occurred in Ha Giang province, all in the worst hit Yen Minh district. Rescue teams were searching for 15 missing people but conceded they may never find their bodies.

"We have found three people who were listed as missing but we are not optimistic about finding the others," an official from the provincial flood and storm control committee said.

In Brief
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The Situation

Thirty four people have been reported dead or missing following landslides and flash floods in the northern province of Ha Giang. Heavy and sustained rainfall from 19 July has resulted in considerable loss of life and damage to property and infrastructure. Particularly badly affected are the remote mountainous communes of Du Tien and Du Gia

Hanoi (dpa) - The death toll from floods in northern Vietnam has risen to 28 with another 16 missing, district officials said Friday.
The flash floods have caused severe loss of life and property damage in Du Gia and Du Tien, two communes of Yen Minh district in Ha Giang, a senior officer of the district peoples committee told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Friday.

The total number of casualties is believed to have reached 44, of which 28 bodies had been found by late yesterday afternoon, said Can Xuan Hien, the deputy office manager.

Hien also said the road system connecting

REPORT ON FLASH FLOOD SITUATION AND DAMAGE ASSESSMENT IN HA GIANG PROVINCE
Prepared by: UNDP/MARD - DISASTER MANAGEMENT UNIT, VIE/97/002

(According to Immediate Report made by Standing Office of the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control dated 20 July 2004 ).

Preliminary damage assessment:

In the morning of 19 July 2004, a flash flood caused by heavy rains run through Yen Minh district, Ha Giang province. The damage caused by the flash flood reported as below:

- People killed: 01

- People missing: 20

- People injured: 07

- Number of houses swept away: 13